The Angels jumped on Peaches for four runs in the first, yet he went the distance allowing the one more run; all in he allowed six hits plus three walks.
The Tigers blasted Oakland starter, Saginaw native and Central Michigan product, Young in his two innings: eight hits, six earned runs and two homers. He was replaced by Chuck Rainey who fared worse: 41/3 innings, 10 hits and eight runs.
The most-notable part of this game? Former Tigers infielder Mark Wagner pitched the final inning and two-thirds, allowing just two hits, a walk and striking out one (Johnny Grubb.)
Miscellany
Venue: Tiger Stadium
Umpires: HP – Durwood Merrill, 1B – Dan Morrison, 2B – Tim Welke, 3B – Marty Springstead
At the end of the second inning it was 5-0 Tigers. At the end of the fourth inning, it was 7-5 Angels.
Jack Morris has another miserable outing: 32/3 innings, nine hits, four walks, and seven earned runs. A trio of Tigers relievers held the Angels in check for the next eight innings — Doug Bair, 31/3 scoreless; Aurelio López, 11/3 scoreless; and Willie Hernández 32/3 scoreless. I still can’t get over Sparky using his closer for nearly four innings.
Thanks to April rainouts, the Tigers and Red Sox played back-to-back doubleheaders in Boston. These follow the schedule doubleheader against the Royals on Aug. 5.
Yikes. The Red Sox battered three Tigers pitchers — primarily starter Willis and relief man Doug Bair — for 15 hits.
Willis got only one batter out and it was a productive one for Jim Rice, who drove in the game’s first run. All told: 1/3 of an inning, five hits and four earned runs.
Bair pitched the next 42/3 innings and allowed five runs on six hits.
Wade Boggs (4 for 5) and Tony Armas (3 for 4) had almost half of Boston’s hits. Boggs had two homers, and he and Mike Easler both drove in three runs.
Howard Johnson hit a solo home run off Clemens in the seventh.
Miscellany
Venue: Fenway Park
Umpires: HP – Durwood Merrill, 1B – Dan Morrison, 2B – Tim Welke, 3B – Jim McKean
The Tigers scored two in the first on a Chet Lemon homer and a — wait for it — Lance Parrish steal of home. They tacked on two more in the sixth then blew it open with five in the seventh.
Petry threw a complete game, allowing just the one run on a Rich Gedman solo homer with one out in the ninth.
This is another one of those “I was there” doubleheaders, sitting in the upper deck bleachers. When the Tigers won, my friends and I were reveling in the thought of, if Detroit swept, they would be 70-30 after 100 games. Alas …
Miscellany
Venue: Tiger Stadium
Umpires: HP – Mike Reilly, 1B – Tim McClelland, 2B – Don Denkinger, 3B – Al Clark
Ojeda shutout the Tigers for the second time in 1984 — the first was 1-0 on May 3 when he allowed six hits and struck out 10 — and this time he was even better. The lefty allowed just three hits in this complete game domination.
On the other side, Glenn Abbott was not good: 31/3 innings, 10 hits, a walk and four earned runs.
Rusty Kuntz led off the bottom of the first with a single and the Tigers would not get another hit until the seventh.
Umpires: HP – Ted Hendry, 1B – Drew Coble, 2B – Mark Johnson, 3B – Greg Kosc
Time of Game: 2:29
Attendance: 41,935
Jim Lentine OF – #27
The Tigers picked up the right-handed hitting outfielder Jim Lentine on June 2, 1980, from the Cardinals for Al Greene and John Martin.
Lentine made his Tigers debut the following day against the Mariners in Detroit. Sparky slotted him seventh in the lineup, playing left field; he went 0 for 3.
He appeared in 67 games for the 1980 Tigers, and finished with a .261 average, with one home run, 17 RBI and a .719 OPS.
Lentine’s final big-league appearance came on Oct. 5, 198o, the last game of the season, against the Yankees. He started the game at DH, batting eighth, and finished 0 for 1 with a walk. In his final plate appearance he flied out to left off Tim Lollar.
The Tigers released him at the end of Spring Training 1981.
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